Angela Law

On Monday night, I let Lizzy into Jake’s room at bed time. She kept looking out the window and growling. All I could see was a bag of trash laying in the neighbor’s driveway. It looked like maybe his trash can blew over and the garbage bag fell out and something got into it.

Last night, I was in the living room and saw an ambulance stop in front of our house. They were shining their light towards the houses on our street–we assumed they were searching for a house number. A little while later, the ambulance was back and a police car was sitting right in front of our house. Brian went out to see what was going on. It turns out that a bear has been wandering around our neighborhood lately. Last night, someone on Goucher Street hit it with their car, so now it was wandering around, injured. So, the authorities were searching for it.

Now I’m thinking that maybe the bear got into the neighbor’s garbage on Monday night and Lizzy isn’t as dumb as she looks.

We’ve had quite an array of wildlife on our street in the almost 10 years we’ve lived here–groundhogs, raccoons, deer, bear, and a ringneck pheasant. You’d think we lived in the woods or something. If only.

I finally took the plunge today and hemmed my shower curtain on my sewing machine. Brian’s mom came over yesterday and gave me some sewing pointers which enabled me to do the job. It turned out pretty good. Granted, it’s not the straightest hem ever to be hemmed, but it works. I mean, I won’t be hemming Brian’s pants anytime soon, but it’s a shower curtain for goodness sake.

Jake wants me to make him a shop apron. So, I guess I’ll have to go to JoAnn Fabrics at some point and see if I can find some plans for one. Also on my list–a runner for my sideboard (and maybe the mantel), napkins, placemats, and curtains (gasp). The curtains are a long way off because Brian needs to re-trim the windows first. And seeing that there’s already trim on the windows (albeit crappy trim) and not trim pretty much everywhere, he’s going to tackle the places that don’t have trim first. But, I found these cool curtains that I like and they look like they’d be pretty easy to make. So, someday I’ll make them. For now, they’re sitting in the project file.

We got the new freezer installed this evening. You wouldn’t think this would be worth blogging about, but that just means that you’re not as well-acquainted with Murphy as we are.

Before moving it into our utility room, we eyed it up. Things didn’t look good so Brian broke out the measuring tape and confirmed our suspicions–it was going to be a tight fit.

We took off the utility room door and then tried to squeeze the freezer through a number of times–each time removing something else. First went the hinges. Next the door stop. It would’ve fit at this point if not for the tube running down the back. I told Brian to tilt it up and this was enough to squeeze it through. Phew! Of course, it didn’t fit nicely in the spot where I wanted, so we had to swap places with the refrigerator. That seemed to do the trick. I fired it up so it’ll be ready for my frozen food tomorrow.

If anyone’s looking for a good, used chest freezer (around 5-7 cubic feet in size), let me know. Otherwise, it’ll be going in the Trader’s Guide next week.